Letters

A Correction

Editors:
In my article, “What is Political Equality” (Dissent, Summer 1979), I referred to an allegedly “crude formulation” of Nelson Polsby’s, “that if, say, poor people fail to vote in large numbers, it must be because they think they have something better to do on election day.” My memory was faulty and I owe Professor Polsby an apology, for, as he correctly informs me, he has never written any such “formulati...